Description: He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. He carries with him a set of maces on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born in a small plains village. Fonkin liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1200 pp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Gold and ruby ring (12000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull green iron scale mail, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Through the years after Shanairla was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Shanairla's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Map Maker. Her crest is short and black. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents enrolled her in a Warlock school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Guardian, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.